Chapter 1 Three-inch golden lotus old lady 202 1- 12-27 of "Tanghulu mutton kebabs"

Three-inch golden lotus lady

Mediocrity used to listen to grandma when I was a child. He was born in Beihoutun, Wanghua District, Fushun City, Liaoning Province.

Fushun, once a municipality directly under the Central Government in the early days of liberation, was once one of the megacities in China. What exactly is Beihoutun in Wanghua District? Mediocrity has long been forgotten.

In short, in the mediocre impression, there was a small bungalow in Beihoutun at that time In a word, it is the poorest slum in Fushun.

He doesn't know whether mediocrity came to this world in the hospital or on the hot kang of their home. When he grew up, he knew exactly from their household registration books that he was born on 1959 1 month 3 1 day.

Unfortunately, until now, mediocre people don't know their birth time, so he can't find some folk fortune tellers to verify any horoscopes in his life.

The mediocre grandmother is a typical rural woman in Shandong, with her feet wrapped around her feet. Her sharp three-inch feet are wobbly when walking, as if she could fall to the ground at any time and place. Anyone who watches her walk strangely like that has to worry about her and be afraid of her, lest she fall on this little old lady with white hair, short head and thin feet.

Mediocre his grandmother's foot wrap is smelly and long, especially in summer. Whenever he sees grandma sitting on a small bench unbuttoning her foot cloth, he will run to the yard and stand with his little hand holding his little nose. Only when his grandmother washes her disabled feet, will he slowly walk into the room and sit on the edge of the kang, watching her carefully wrap her ugly feet with foot wraps layer by layer.

Mediocre Whenever I watch his grandmother bind her feet, I always see the serious and proud look on his grandmother's face. It's like God is admiring a precious work of art, which makes mediocrity very incomprehensible, and I wonder what these two rotten feet and smelly feet have to look at.

Once, a mediocre man sat on the edge of a kang and watched his grandmother wrap her feet. She couldn't help but ask curiously, "Grandma, how did you do this to your feet?" How difficult it is to walk! "

The mediocre grandmother wrapped her head around her little feet and said with a smile, "My grandmother and my mother are such little feet. They used to do this. My little feet were wrapped by my mother when I was a child. This is called three-inch golden lotus. Look, how beautiful! "

Mediocre sitting on the edge of the kang, shaking his head and shrinking his mouth, said, "Hum! What three-inch golden lotus! There's only one big toe left. What's there to see? Ugly and smelly. Grandma, your mother is really bad! Do you bother her? "

"What are you humming, you little turtle grandson? What are you talking about? Go out to play. "

Mediocre saw that his grandmother was angry, so he jumped to the ground from the edge of the kang and ran out of the house to find children to play in the street.

Since then, mediocrity has never argued with grandma about the three-inch golden lotus. In fact, the mediocre man at that time didn't know what a three-inch golden lotus was, and he couldn't understand why his grandmother called his little feet a three-inch golden lotus. All he knows is that grandma's little feet are ugly and smelly, and they are two bad feet.

There are always different opinions about the origin of China women's foot binding. Some people say that it began in the Sui Dynasty, some people say that it began in the Tang Dynasty, and some people say that it began in the Five Dynasties. Some scholars even say that it started in Xia and Shang Dynasties, and the evidence is that da ji, Dayu's wife and notorious fox, is Little Foot. From ancient times to the present, there are different opinions.

Su Dongpo, a great poet in the Song Dynasty, once wrote a poem called Bodhisattva Man, which is also the first poem devoted to foot binding in the history of China's poetry.

"Tu phase at lotus step, long worry socks to Ling Bo. I saw the dance in the air without a trace. Stealing the palace is as steady as Mount Tai, and it's a double drop. It should be hard to say that it is wonderful. It must be seen from the palm of your hand. "

Many people, especially those who like reading history books, almost know that China women's foot-binding reached its peak in the Qing Dynasty.

At that time, women from all walks of life in China, rich or poor, regardless of rank, bound their feet in succession, and even some minority women in the northwest and southwest followed suit.

The shape and size of women's feet have become an important criterion for judging women's beauty and ugliness. As a woman, whether and how to bind her feet will directly affect her lifelong events.

At that time, men from all walks of life were ashamed of women's feet and proud of their little feet when they got married. The saying of three-inch golden lotus has long been deeply rooted in people's hearts.

"Looking at the abnormal beauty of ancient and modern times from the three-inch golden lotus is simply shocking!"

Many years later, I grew up in mediocrity, and I came across an article before I knew what a three-inch golden lotus was all about.

"Three-inch golden lotus, which first appeared in the Song Dynasty, is the ultimate development of ancient women's traditional customs. People call foot-binding "lotus", while feet of different sizes are different grades of "lotus", those larger than four inches are "iron lotus", those four inches are "anemone" and those three inches are "golden lotus".

The theory of three-inch golden lotus requires that the feet should be not only three inches smaller, but also curved.

Foot-binding is one of the ugliest customs in China feudal society. When girls were young, they began to wear tiny pointed shoes. When they were five or six years old, they wrapped their feet in cloth and tried their best to press the four toes except the big toe under their feet. Over time, their toes and bones were severely distorted, and a pair of naturally healthy feet grew into deformed feet of about three or four inches, almost triangular. This kind of feet and shoes are called "three-inch golden lotus"! .

The abnormal aesthetic of three-inch golden lotus has prevailed in China for thousands of years, which contains the sad blood and tears of countless women in China, and has long been criticized and spurned by history.

Foot-binding has serious physical and mental harm to women. During this period, the pain of foot rot is long and unbearable, and the mental pressure they bear is unimaginable. A young and confused mind bears a heavy and unknown family fate. As the saying goes, "a pair of little feet and a jar of tears" is by no means empty talk.

Why did such a pervert become the aesthetic taste of feudal society? In the final analysis, foot binding is a deformed product of feudal society.

In a patriarchal society, naturally, male aesthetics has become the dominant aesthetic value standard, and women are subordinate to and dependent on men. Therefore, once male aesthetics is distorted, female aesthetics and even the aesthetics of the whole society will be affected. The deformed beauty of foot binding is actually the most powerful explanation for male hegemony and discrimination against women.

Feet can give men pleasure, light is lewd, heavy is drama. Small feet, not easy to walk, will hinder women from going out of the wall.

Some men think that after foot-binding, the feet develop atrophy, gravity forces the body to bend into an arch, and special walking posture promotes the development of hips and pelvis. Its purpose is self-evident, which is also a part of male psychology and its selfishness.

In the old society, women could not get rid of ignorant feudal thoughts, and in order to please men, they could not escape the fate of humiliation.

Now the development of society has not allowed men to despise women, and women are also heaven. They are independent, self-reliant and self-respecting, emitting charming charm and dazzling light.

However, the unavoidable problem is that in some dark places of society, a small number of women are still repeating the old feudal ideas, giving up their dignity and degrading their personality for the power of one finger, for a little bit of fame, for a dime, and for the so-called "self-enjoyment", repeating the abnormal beauty similar to foot-binding, and are proud of it.

Mo Bao, a wise man, said, "The biggest deformity today is the distortion of psychological value and human nature. In the world, there is another kind of endearing and endearing. "

Think of yourself as a stunner and treat others with color. How can you persist for so long ... "